Meaning:
I chose to create the graphic using the word “wind” due to today being the first day of fall. Wind can be a gentle breeze that that barely moves the trees or it can be a strong and powerful force that destroys everything in its path. In the graphic I chose to portray the wind as a gentle fall breeze blowing through high, soft clouds. Process:
In Photoshop Elements, create a new graphic canvas that is sized to be 200 pixels wide and 200 pixels tall.
Choose the background titled Blue. This background will be described later on as to why it was chosen.
Apply this background to the first layer. Look to see if there are any effects which need to be added to make the background seem more realistic.
Create a new layer and insert a text box. Center the text box on the image in order to manipulate it later on.
Type wind into the text box. Use the Pristina text and white as the color.
Go to image and select free rotate to allow you to pull the text to the desired angle, giving a more lifelike feel to the text.
Use the blur tool to blur the background and then layer with the text in it to make it look like the wind has blown some of the writing away.
Use the pencil tool to create lines coming from the text to give the illusion of blowing wind.
In the layer with the text box, go to the Image tab and select transform. Then select distort and pull the image down to the lower left side of the graphic.
In the layer with the text select filter, select distort. Then select twirl, and adjust the angle to make the word wind look as though it is blowing in the wind.
Choice:
When looking at the three options for the project, I felt as though option one allowed me to create a graphic that captured my imagination of what wind looks like without actually having an image of wind. With my anticipation of the autumn season increasing day by day, and after reading option 1, I knew I had the perfect way to portray a visual of wind. I chose to use a light blue background with hints of white in it to resemble the sky and high clouds that wind gently pushes along in its path. I wanted to use a cursive text in order to show the wind moving and not keeping the same form. Wind is unpredictable, and I wanted the text to look unpredictable as well. I decided to rotate the text to an angle as well to allow for more shifting, as well as being less predictable. After looking at the graphic for a couple of minutes, I decided that in order to make the image look more natural, I would use the blur tool to modify the graphic. I attempted to follow the angles of the text with the blur lines on both the background and the layer with the text box. Then, I decided to take the pencil tool and attempt to make it look as though the image was flying away with different angled lines coming from the tops of the text. When doing this, I felt as though I had not achieved the desired look I was going for, but left it in there as I played with the distorting tool under the filter tab. After using the twirl tool, under the distorting tab, I achieved the graphic I was looking for: the word WIND, gently being blown away, on a partly cloudy blue skied calm fall day.
Other four letter word options that I considered when performing this project were:
Hope: I was thinking about using a bright background, with a diamond gradient to show the color exploding out of the word hope. I also planned on using a shadowing effect to make the word hope grow from the center of the image out.
Rest: I love to have a good day of rest, so I considered doing this word as well when performing this project. When I think about rest, I think about napping, therefore, was considering on making the word rest trail away from the eyes, or into the screen. I would attempt to make it look like the little Z’s that you see on drawings when someone is sleeping.
Love: I thought about using the word love for this project and inserting cookie cutter drawings throughout the graphic, or having the word love act as an arrow through the center of a heart. However, I felt as though this word was too cliché and would be used several times. I decided that I would be able to portray wind better using the graphics I had to choose from.
Meaning:
I chose to create the graphic using the word “wind” due to today being the first day of fall. Wind can be a gentle breeze that that barely moves the trees or it can be a strong and powerful force that destroys everything in its path. In the graphic I chose to portray the wind as a gentle fall breeze blowing through high, soft clouds.
Process:
- In Photoshop Elements, create a new graphic canvas that is sized to be 200 pixels wide and 200 pixels tall.
- Choose the background titled Blue. This background will be described later on as to why it was chosen.
- Apply this background to the first layer. Look to see if there are any effects which need to be added to make the background seem more realistic.
- Create a new layer and insert a text box. Center the text box on the image in order to manipulate it later on.
- Type wind into the text box. Use the Pristina text and white as the color.
- Go to image and select free rotate to allow you to pull the text to the desired angle, giving a more lifelike feel to the text.
- Use the blur tool to blur the background and then layer with the text in it to make it look like the wind has blown some of the writing away.
- Use the pencil tool to create lines coming from the text to give the illusion of blowing wind.
- In the layer with the text box, go to the Image tab and select transform. Then select distort and pull the image down to the lower left side of the graphic.
- In the layer with the text select filter, select distort. Then select twirl, and adjust the angle to make the word wind look as though it is blowing in the wind.
Choice:When looking at the three options for the project, I felt as though option one allowed me to create a graphic that captured my imagination of what wind looks like without actually having an image of wind. With my anticipation of the autumn season increasing day by day, and after reading option 1, I knew I had the perfect way to portray a visual of wind. I chose to use a light blue background with hints of white in it to resemble the sky and high clouds that wind gently pushes along in its path. I wanted to use a cursive text in order to show the wind moving and not keeping the same form. Wind is unpredictable, and I wanted the text to look unpredictable as well. I decided to rotate the text to an angle as well to allow for more shifting, as well as being less predictable. After looking at the graphic for a couple of minutes, I decided that in order to make the image look more natural, I would use the blur tool to modify the graphic. I attempted to follow the angles of the text with the blur lines on both the background and the layer with the text box. Then, I decided to take the pencil tool and attempt to make it look as though the image was flying away with different angled lines coming from the tops of the text. When doing this, I felt as though I had not achieved the desired look I was going for, but left it in there as I played with the distorting tool under the filter tab. After using the twirl tool, under the distorting tab, I achieved the graphic I was looking for: the word WIND, gently being blown away, on a partly cloudy blue skied calm fall day.
Other four letter word options that I considered when performing this project were: